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Microsoft Excel Navigation Techniques

Each Excel document is referred to as a workbook and each workbook can contain up to 255 worksheets. To activate a particular worksheet, click on one of the tabs displayed at the bottom of your screen.

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Microsoft Excel 2007: The Countif Function

The COUNTIF function enables us to count the number of cells in a given range which satisfy a condition. COUNTIFS does exactly the same. However, with COUNTIFS, we can specify multiple criteria. For instance, let’s say we have a worksheet containing four columns: the date, the number of phone calls received, the number of complaints and the percentage of calls which were actually complaints.

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Microsoft Excel’s COUNT, COUNTA And COUNTBLANK Functions

Excel boasts a huge range of functions which are conveniently arranged into categories. The COUNT function is found under the statistical category. There are actually five COUNT functions; COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF and COUNTIFS. We will look at COUNTIF and COUNTIFS in another article. In this article, we will examine COUNT, COUNTA and COUNTBLANK.

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Understanding The SUMIF function in Exel 2007

Most Excel users have encountered the SUM function. It is one of the most widely used functions within the program. And most Excel users will also have used the IF function at some stage. The SUMIF function is really just a combination of SUM and If which allows us to calculate the total of all cells within a given range that match a certain condition.

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How Styles Work In Microsoft Excel 2007

As well as using and modifying Excel’s own built-in cell styles, you also have the option of creating your own. One convenient method of doing this is to select a range of cells and apply all the formatting attributes that you want to add to your style and then convert those attributes into a cell style. When you create a cell style, Excel will pick up all the attributes from the selected cells and include them in the style. Let’s say, by way of illustration, we want to create a cell style for headings with text angled at 45 degrees.

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